As long as it's not:
http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Charles/lost-jacob-and-nemesis.jpg
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 July 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
bit of a mid-season lull,
aka parliamentary recess which seems even sillier than ever right now
― lex pretend, Monday, 25 July 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
yea we should be having parliamentary ... excess
― radioactive computer (schlump), Monday, 25 July 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
lol at Dispatches, sounds like it has been narrated by Chris Morris in full-on parody mode.
― Neil S, Monday, 25 July 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
oh it's Peter Oborne NM.
― Neil S, Monday, 25 July 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
A NoTW tale
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
The Guardian reporter Nick Davies has been signed to write an authoritative account of the News Corp. scandal for Faber and Faber Inc. Financial compensation wasn't disclosed.The book, to be titled "Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught up with the World's Most Powerful Man," will be published in the fall of 2012. Davies previously wrote "Flat Earth News."
The book, to be titled "Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught up with the World's Most Powerful Man," will be published in the fall of 2012. Davies previously wrote "Flat Earth News."
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking lock-in.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
i've only read some of flat earth news but it's good.sorta hope that by 2012 'caught up' refers to more than the gruelling culture committee appearance the world's most powerful man had to endure.
― decorate the slaughterhouse with geraniums (schlump), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
By the way, do we have a new British politics thread for non-NI stuff?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
George Osborne met News International chiefs 16 times
... more times than i've met my mother in the same period
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
How many times has George Osborne met your mother?
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
My mother will be publishing that information soon enough, she assures me she has nothing to hide
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
When did George Osbourne stop meeting your wife?
― 50,000 raspberries with the face of Peter Ndlovu (aldo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Tom you really should visit your mother more :)
Labour leader Ed Miliband had 14 meetings or social contacts with News International executives over the same period, while PM David Cameron had 11.
oops - there goes Ed's ammo.
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Murdoch merch isn’t moving very well over at gag retailer Zazzle.com, either, which is currently selling an apron that reads “I’m Grilling the Murdochs” and a “News Corp. Hacked My Phone” shirt. “The items appeared fast and furious,” said vp of marketing Jason Kang. “However, Rupert Murdoch isn’t something that translates well into being a hot consumer item.” Why not? “When bin Laden got taken care of, people felt enormous pride,” Kang explained. “The Murdoch thing is funny, but doesn’t engender the same emotional response.”
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
Passed this on the bus today
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
lol piers morgan
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/news-out-to-ruin-me-nixon-20110727-1i0ek.html
Murdoch's papers destroyed the last two Victorial Police chiefs. One of them has finally found the guts to speak out about it.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
uh oh
tom_watson tom_watson The hacking scandal is about nosedive to a whole new low. How could these people do what they did?12 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
still conflicted that i'm enjoying this more than i'm appropriately outraged/depressed &c, but i await the revive anxiously
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure how much lower it could get but hey.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
No need to be ashamed about enjoying the skewering of scumbags (xp)
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
byameliahill Amelia HillABOUT TO BREAK: You thought the phone hacking scandal couldn't get any more heinous? Think again... @bynickdavies and @byameliahill
the suspense is killing me!
― joe, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
Never accept gifts from red-headed NI employeeshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/phone-hacking-sarah-payne
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
slightly slept on tweet:
Here's the Prime Minister's letter confirming records indicate Neil Wallis did meet Andy Coulson at Downing St: http://twitpic.com/5x24ce
we'll see huh, re: how low it goes- i still think the hacking a sitting prime minister thing is the craziest shit
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
woooah
gonna bring out the word 'dastardly' here
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Think the Payne story was trailed as a rumour in Private Eye a while ago. Might have been somewhere online instead. Interesting it's broken now.
The cynicism of allegedly giving her a phone just so they could hack it is amazing.
― HIS BODY IS FAT BECAUSE HE HAVE BIG HEART (ShariVari), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
i suppose it is significant that brooks gave it to sara payne personally, puts her closer to the scene of the crime.
― joe, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think i'd heard it somewhere before. curious to see how brooks can possibly explicate the logic behind 'oh here have a phone?' beyond 'i guess it helps to have a phone?'
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Ohhhh shit.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
i still don't totally understand the logic behind endemic, automatic phonehacking, btw, outside of like, what-will-sienna-miller's-voicemail-reveal. like i can't think of examples of what they would be able to publish that was attained that way.
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
i feel a bit bad that i already assumed this had happened :/
SURELY brooks can't continue to deny her knowledge now
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
"I never knew the phone would be hacked" will be the line presumably, whether she can maintain that line is the question.
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's transparently not believable, though - she's basically relying on it being perceived as a coincidence; how about that?, i happened to give her something that would facilitate phone-hacking, right amid the period at which without my knowledge my newspaper was practicing such a thing
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
Did Sara Payne just not have a mobile at that time? I suppose it's possible.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
thought this was in popbitch a few weeks ago, and so it proves, from july 8th:
>> Screwed << Noose tightens at News Int
With all the blagging, cash payments and subterfuge involved, some of the stories coming out at the moment make phone hacking sound like it would be a very complicated and expensive operation. Well, imagine if NOTW execs were bright enough to have found a simpler solution.
As the self-appointed scourge of paedos and the promoters of Sarah's law, it was only natural that the News Of The World would be on hand to comfort the victims' families in many of the most horrific crimes of the last decade. And such was their apparent determination to rid the country of child sex offenders, it wouldn't have seemed too weird if a senior NOTW figure sympathetically handed over a mobile phone at no expense to the victim - so that they could all keep in touch. And then, of course, there would be no problem monitoring those phones, would there? If the rumours going around News International about who the person handing out the phone was are anything more substantial than chatter from understandably bitter ex-employees then we might see some action on this website before too long: http://www.hasrebekahbrooksbeensackedyet.com/
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah someone on twitter just pointed that out. phew, thought i was imagining things when my first reaction was "b-b-but i already know that"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
remember this was the early 00s, before email communication was as much the default as it is now. (when is the email hacking stuff gonna emerge?)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
eh maybe so, but that the NOTW were the benevolent donors of one?, coincidental w/their phone hacking activities
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, the timescale throws me off slightly. but even still, i just - like i know the 9/11 thing is still alleged, but with that, for example: what are they getting that they can use? like in that circumstance it almost seems that it's a lazier alternative to reporting, rather than a more intrusive one – one that might give them some general colour & an idea of what’s going on. but wouldn't going any further and writing a story on it have been hugely risky?
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh absolutely it's something that seems driven by laziness, so much is
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Guess they would also want to know which papers were in touch with her and how much they would offer for story.
― HIS BODY IS FAT BECAUSE HE HAVE BIG HEART (ShariVari), Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
The thing that's surprised me is that The Sun hasn't been dragged into this yet.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Was it Private Eye who mentioned there being a hack at the NOTW who got all of his stories by phone hacking from the office, and was thus dubbed "The Olympic Flame" because he never went out?
― MPx4A, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
xpost: I thought some an0nym0us haXX0rz were going to post like truckloads of Sun emails a couple of weeks ago?
― StanM, Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
jonsnowC4 Jon SnowThere's another hacking bombshell alleadgedly involvingt the Mirror breaking any minute..1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Wau.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link